| Show national affairs written for the park record by FRANK P LITSCHERT we hear so much about the plight of the farmers that it Is good to get news which can be recorded on the right side of the ledger news of this kind Is coming from nebraska these days A record breaking wheat crop Is reported for this middle western state it Is said that the total amount of the yield ot of the fall all and spring crops may reach bushels in some sections of the state the farmers report a probable yield of forty bushels to the acre the value 0 of f this great crop to the farmer Is estimated at around a hundred million dollars it is predicted that most ot of the crop will yield from a bushel up and these figures with the big crop spell real prosperity to the farmer nebraska other crops in the state are said to be good oats Is about normal sugar beets are good and the yield of bay Is expected to be above normal here la Is some real news from nebraska now W what hat state will be th the a next to report that things are looking up 4 av for nebraska will not be alone there is said eald tobe a heavy yield of wheat in the northwest and the western iowa dakota colorado and wyo wyoming ming crops reports are reported to be quite encouraging cou raging of course in the corn com belt it Is a little too early to do any predicting the crop was planted late but favorable weather in august and debeni ber will go 90 a long way toward remedy Ing this difficulty 40 4 0 40 0 according to a correspondent of the boston transcript nebraska has another coming crop of these days and this Is a 86 crop of lumber in school we were wera taught that nebraska was a prairie and tanning farming section and not a lumber state but things are improving from the forestry standpoint for great pine forests are being developed in what is known as the sand hill country of nebraska 0 4 0 the plans worked out more than thirty years ago by dr charles E bessey bersey of the university of nebraska so the transcript dispatch runs and which have been followed now f tor or more than twenty five years were reported to ito be successful and to be covering the country once known as the great amerl m can desert with fine pines dr bessey has been dead more than ten tell years but his plans to make a great forest in nebraska known as probably the most treeless state in the union are being used successfully the nursery officials expect to distribute next year to private ranchers in the sand hills young pines to be transplanted on their ranches 4 lt it is pointed out that when this work was commenced the sand hills were a W waste aste iste an and d the homesteaders homesteader refused to settle ettle on five million acres set apart for t them hem because a homesteader t make a living on acres of this kind of land so the idea of growing forests was determined upon and the work commenced some borne of the trees planted as pine cone twenty five years ago are now thirty feet high and still growing ln in twenty years more these there will be b big g enough lor for saw logs and the whole ten million acres of sand land will be an evergreen forest aw 40 aw when can we find finer more constructive tive more patriotic work than this dr bessey deserves undying fame in nebraska find and will doubtless get it it is to be remembered also that nebraska is not the only state with waste land and land which cannot be cultivated at a 96 profit t in many other states timber can be grown cheaper and more quickly than in nebraska why not help the farmer fanner and assure the lumber future of the country by converting some of this poor land into forest reserves |
